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    The ancient rule that men love war and women love warriors so that after each war an abundance of children easily exceeded war losses, while damaged cities were rebuilt and expanded in dynamic post-war reconstructions, seems to have been forgotten

    What is this supposed to mean? War is OK because after it people can rebuild and reproduce?

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      The ancient rule that men love war

      If only there were living survivors of the last great war in Europe who we can ask about whether they still love war.

      Oh well, better send the young men out to die.

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      It’s like when you prune some branches off a tree and it grows back stronger and prettier but only with human beings instead of branches.

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        Reactionaries would unironically say this in the most matter-of-fact way possible

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          If I had a nickel every time someone posted or said out loud that dumb meme about “hard men creating good times”, I’d probably be bourgeoisie already

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          Then they will proceed to carpet bomb the tree and let corpos freely poison the water when placed in power.

          For all the bullshit reactionaries spew about ubermensch, they have never even created ubermensch.

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        Well Josep Borrell said that Europe is a garden.

        You prune a garden, unlike those savage unkempt jungles. And you’re very selective about what you allow to grow in the garden.

        🤢

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      I looked at the author’s profile and wow, makes a lot more sense now how he’d arrive at such a twisted statement:

      His most recent book is The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces

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        His most recent book is The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces

        … or, “How not to run a prison colony.”